Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2536
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Молим (Molim)
कृपया
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Doteli
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Serbia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
serbe
népalais
German Name
Serbisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
11th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Nepali
Language Position
4459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sr
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
nep
ISO 639 2/B
srp
nep
ISO 639 3
srp
npi
ISO 639 6
srp
nep
Glottocode
serb1264
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative